We don’t blame him for doing that and we agree with him, some of the views in Mid Wales are spectacular, but what happened next wasn’t in the script.

“Well, we got lost. We got lost. It took us about five hours and people who took the motorway say they got here in three and a half or four hours.”

As Watson describes, he drove past ‘a big farm’ in Builth Wells, which we believe he might be confusing with the Royal Welsh Show.

It may sound like an incredible mistake to make, but the 64-year-old lives in Kansas, where the farms are significantly bigger than here, so at least it was familiar surroundings for the eight-time major champion.

“They have a big farm we went by that, is it Builth Wells? Yeah, Builth Wells. We saw all the horse boxes there, and it made me feel right at home.

“My wife would be here but she’s in her own major championship this week. She’s competing in Fort Worth Texas in a cutting horse show.

“No, it’s beautiful countryside.”

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